Crash victim ID'd as newlywed

Denis J. O'Malley

Published 11:40 pm, Friday, September 6, 2013

SEYMOUR -- Police on Friday identified the victim of Tuesday night's fatal one-vehicle crash on Rimmon Road as a 51-year-old Southbury man who had been married just three weeks earlier.

Seymour Police Lt. Paul Satkowski said an autopsy determined Mark Beers died of multiple blunt-force trauma after his pickup truck veered off a curve on Rimmon Road, also known as Route 313, and slammed into a tree at about 10:45 p.m., immediately bursting into flames.

Beers married Laura Webb last month.

The home Beers lived in on Quaker Farms Road is in the name of Webb. She acknowledged her husband's death on her Facebook page, which identifies her as Laura Webb Beers.

"My new husband, my soulmate and the love and light if (sic) my life was tragically killed in a car crash Tuesday night on Rt. 313 in Seymour," she replied to a friend's comment on a picture of Beers. "My heart is shattered."

When first responders arrived at the crash scene, the intensity of the fire kept them from approaching the vehicle and Beers was burned beyond recognition. He was identified after an autopsy by the Office of the Chief State Medical Examiner.

Satkowski said in a news release that the crash remains under investigation pending toxicology results. He expected the tests to take several weeks.